Posted on 10/02/2022 2:53:55 PM PDT by David Chase
GOLDSBORO, N.C. (AP) — The situation with the poll watcher had gotten so bad that Anne Risku, the election director in North Carolina's Wayne County, had to intervene via speakerphone.
“You need to back off!” Risku recalled hollering after the woman wedged herself between a voter and the machine where the voter was trying to cast his ballot at a precinct about 60 miles southeast of Raleigh.
Poll watchers have traditionally been an essential element of electoral transparency, the eyes and ears for the two major political parties who help ensure that the actual mechanics of voting are administered fairly and accurately. But election officials fear that a surge of conspiracy believers are signing up for those positions this year and are being trained by others who have propagated the lie spread by former President Donald Trump and his allies that the 2020 presidential election was riddled with fraud.
In Michigan, groups that have spread falsehoods about that race are recruiting poll watchers. In Nevada, the Republican Party's nominee for secretary of state, Jim Marchant, denies President Joe Biden's 2020 victory and was a featured speaker at a party poll watcher training.
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“Counting Centers” need to be outlawed.
The election was indeed stolen.
It doesn’t matter if the Republican poll watcher believes in UFOs or Santa Clause, as long as proper procedures are being followed.
That’s the real fear the Left has.
Man oh man……..that day pissed me off so bad.
Had I acted on my thoughts……..I would have gotten the gas pedal and brake pedal confused and created a drive thru. Geezer style of course.
What an ugly scene that was.
You and me both. I kept thinking that the people outside should smash their way in to see what the hell was going on.
They will use the old but very effective Race Card.
White guy is threatening me by merely standing there.
Something must be done about these nasty poll watchers. They’re inclined to say all kinds of crazy lies - like “hey didn’t I just see you vote already” and “where did you get all of those unfolded unsigned ballots”
True. But it only works in select geo areas.
Inner cities. Ghettos.
No they don’t want to debate, but they’re more than willing to censor you.
Poll watchers are an important way to ensure that every voter can trust an election.
These recent media articles suggest that some election officials have something to hide.
It makes their repeated claims about what happened in 2020 just another example of the hypocrisy of the left.
I’ve never seen this and the trainers very strongly tell the poll watchers NOT to be confrontational and to be very nice and polite. Any issues can be addressed by calling a hotline staffed by lawyers. This is BS propaganda and a early look at what their narrative is going to be. Pathetic really.
Although growing up in the waning days of the segregated South, I never had a problem with black people because faith (Catholic), schools (Catholic) and family (immigrant grandparents, from Poland and Ireland) consistently taught equality, respect and good manners, and human dignity as fundamental.
Poll watchers have to be credentialed as challengers in New Jersey if they wish to question the right of any citizen to vote. There is a set process for the challenge. They can’t just insert themselves between the voter and the machine.
The counting and tallying of the counts is what needs to be watched closely.
I have never heard of upnorthlive, but must assume from the tone that it is a left-wing publication.
It’s an ABC affiliate covering Northern Michigan.
In 2020 at the TCF Center in Detroit…….poll watchers were indeed kicked out and windows covered up to prevent them from observing from the outside.
Under the threat of arrest poll watchers were told to leave and were escorted out.
Their crime? “White Intimidation”. Whatever that means.
Guess you can call lawyers from the booking room at the jail if you want.
Rules in Detroit are different than rules/laws throughout the State, and Country even.
Citizens must not “confront” the Liberal World Order’s election officials.
We can. We just have to do it under our terms, at the right time and place.
Judge shop like they do.
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